Emdr is a strange therapy,nobody understand how it's working.....but it's working pretty good for PTSD (see pubmed,it's the most efficient technique for this desordre).
I know they're busy with a trial for CFS patients with EMDR in Belgium...don't know the preliminary results yet.

But anyway,if you feel confident with the examinator,go ahead,it won't harm you in any way.
The only incidence can be postive.

Its probably one of the only things that really clears trauma and PTSD symptoms. It has a lot of research behind it. I think I read its at the top of the list for the defense department treatment in dealing with PTSD. The practitioners who do it vary in skill level to those who only have a minor interest and have taken a training or two, to experts who deal with trauma all the time. As with anything, you got to make sure the person you go to knows what they are doing...

I spent over 20 years off and on doing regular "talk" therapy with minimal results, for issues having to do with childhood trauma. Then I discovered EMDR. It really does work. I wouldn't call it strange, as someone else did, just different. One thing I've read about it says that when you experience a trauma, you get "stuck" at that point because it's too much to process. EMDR helps process trauma so you can move past it. With the regular therapy, I just kept dealing with the same issues over and over again, but EMDR actually helped things get resolved.

I've read that some people get rather quick results with it, in just a few sessions. It took me several months for noticeable results - however, this was nothing compared to years and years of traditional therapy. I really think I wouldn't have gotten sick if this had been available when I was 20. I think the length of time needed has to do with the nature of the trauma - e.g., a hurricane, while devastating, is an impersonal force of nature, and this type of trauma can be resolved relatively quickly. However, childhood family stuff is complex and intertwined and just generally takes longer. But EMDR still works.

I think every therapist should be trained in this.

It can be used with other issues as well - it doesn't have to be trauma.

If you go to EMDR.com, you can find a list of practitioners with the proper training.

I have been in therapy for the last 3 1/2 years to finally deal with a very troubled childhood. I have to say you need to trust your therapist first and foremost. I was able to work on issues such as sexual abuse as a young child and an alcoholic father. Of course the hardest to deal with was the sexual abuse but I can at least think of it now and know it was not my fault, I was a victim of a very sick person. The EMDR treaments seemed to really help me get past the point I was stuck at, that is to say, playing the victim, and now I feel like a strong survivor. I would recommend it, but only with someone I trust completely and feel very comfortable with. Hope this helps-Weencie

I have done it for PTSD. what it does is take the bad memories and places it in the back of your brain. YOu need to be certified in it to do it. THere is a web page of the therapists who are certified. if, there are not certified then they dont know squat on EMDR theraphy.